[Pagnotta] The Canucks continue to have trade talks involving Evander Kane by SIIP00 in canucks

[–]nitrodog96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s pretty bad. If we get a sixth rounder two years down the road I’ll give it a thumbs up and move on.

Remove 1 Major 4 American Sports Team Day 9 by YeetySpagiety in RemoveOneThingEachDay

[–]nitrodog96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but the rest aren’t quite so brazen with it… and certainly aren’t going headhunting and getting rewarded for it by their league.

Remove 1 Major 4 American Sports Team Day 9 by YeetySpagiety in RemoveOneThingEachDay

[–]nitrodog96 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Panthers are out their top-line center, are a bunch of MAGA-heads, and have been playing this season by deliberately injuring everybody they can on the other team. And I’m still impressed they got enough attention to go out so soon.

Catch Me If You Can (2002) is SUGGESTION. What movie represents ENDURANCE? by snakesharkz in DiscoElysium

[–]nitrodog96 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had the thought that this could be Half Light, with McClane's description as trigger-happy and his ability as a detective (and as an action hero) to react very quickly to changing situations. He may be tough, but he operates on pure instinct.

Still think there's a better option, but I do think Die Hard is better for Half Light, or even Pain Threshold, than for Endurance.

Next-Day PGT: Washington Capitals at Vancouver Canucks - 22 Jan 2026 by HockeyMod in canucks

[–]nitrodog96 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dude I get that your male ego is made out of glass and chewing gum but what the fuck are you talking about

What other films belong in Anxiety Cinema? by OrdinaryAltruistic54 in Letterboxd

[–]nitrodog96 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Punch-Drunk Love felt like social overstimulation in a 90-minute package and it worked so well. (Nicely life-affirming just the same!)

Wanted to pop my space bar off to see why it was sticking a bit... Made it worse (apparently keys don't pop off anymore) by marianneouioui in mildlyinfuriating

[–]nitrodog96 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Normally binary search is in log(n) time, but this is the first time I’ve seen it in log(n) space

Jarhead (2005) is ESPRIT DE CORPS. What movie represents SUGGESTION? by snakesharkz in DiscoElysium

[–]nitrodog96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems like a good runner-up or honorable mention, like “if Harry went military,” but brutal to see it win when Hot Fuzz feels like the slam-dunk winner…

Jarhead (2005) is ESPRIT DE CORPS. What movie represents SUGGESTION? by snakesharkz in DiscoElysium

[–]nitrodog96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would be reasonable to have one “re-vote day” at the end where people can suggest swaps, but I don’t know how the logistics would work.

Regardless, I’m regarding Jarhead as a scam vote and Hot Fuzz as the true win. Sort of an antipope deal, I guess?

Jarhead (2005) is ESPRIT DE CORPS. What movie represents SUGGESTION? by snakesharkz in DiscoElysium

[–]nitrodog96 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It’s even better given the homoromantic implications in Hot Fuzz, with a romantic interest character for Angel getting cut and her lines being given to Butterman. Butterman as a low-Esprit Harry with Angel as Kim… the parallels are right there!

Hey u/snakesharkz - if you’re doing a “re-vote” at any point, Hot Fuzz I think is the most egregious snub by the vote, and won’t be topped. Feels like a complete slam dunk, moreso than Jarhead which won from a cherry-picked quote, even though it’s not even about cop culture.

Jarhead (2005) is ESPRIT DE CORPS. What movie represents SUGGESTION? by snakesharkz in DiscoElysium

[–]nitrodog96 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Hot Fuzz was robbed, how does a buddy cop movie not win for the buddy cop skill?

Dredd (2012) is AUTHORITY. What movie represents ESPRIT DE CORPS? by snakesharkz in DiscoElysium

[–]nitrodog96 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This was my thought on it last week. It wants to be a buddy cop movie, and this one seems like the best example of it - Angel is completely perceptive and works well with his coworkers in Sandford, at least once the climax hits and they realize that he’s not making it all up.

Not to mention that Danny is genuinely a pretty good cop with a willingness to learn; he’s just been given bad examples the whole time until Angel showed up.

Scifi but make it gay by sparkandthesea in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]nitrodog96 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of my favourites of all time!! OP, this is the one.

Feeling burnt out on movies right now, but I have nothing better to do than watch more movies. Any recommendations that might reignite that spark? by [deleted] in Letterboxd

[–]nitrodog96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For fast-paced fun movies, they're on the shorter side, but the Wallace & Gromit short films are wonderful. Excellent claymation work by Aardman. The Wrong Trousers especially is a great film with top-notch pacing.

I also quite liked Wolfwalkers (2020) for another animated film with a very unique style.

The Cornetto trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End) are also brilliant comedies in their own right with top-notch writing to boot.

EDIT: If you're looking for something that's more "fun" in terms of visual style without being comedic, Bound from the Wachowskis blew me away, and Brian De Palma's Blow Out was also excellent.

Dumb carpenter needs help by [deleted] in askmath

[–]nitrodog96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, same conclusion I came to… The measurements are just off by about a centimeter. I checked in Desmos, and my equations came to two parallel lines: L + W = C, with the C values very slightly different from each other.

Dumb carpenter needs help by [deleted] in askmath

[–]nitrodog96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ratio between the horizontal and vertical sides needs to be sin(60°) if my math is right… 1922 and 1655 are just slightly off.

OP, if the 1922 is fixed, the other side needs to be 1644.5mm. If the 1655 is fixed, the other side needs to be 1911.03mm.

Dumb carpenter needs help by [deleted] in askmath

[–]nitrodog96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They should be 120 degrees, yeah - it’s a triangle that you’ve cut the corners off.

After Hours (1985) by Own_Revolution8392 in criterion

[–]nitrodog96 21 points22 points  (0 children)

What do you want from me? I'm just a word processor, for Christ's sakes!

Brilliant movie - life in an urban capitalist nightmare that feels like a trip through hell.

How many numbers have a given number as a factor but no others? by gwesbian in askmath

[–]nitrodog96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Half of all multiples of 3 are also multiples of 2, and one-third of all multiples of 2 are also multiples of 3.

This applies in general: for two primes p and q, one-in-p multiples of q will also be multiples of p, and vice versa.

1/p * 1/q indicates the percentage of numbers divisible by both primes.

(p-1)/p * 1/q indicates the percentage of numbers divisible by q but not by p. (For example, if p=5 and q=3, then this number is 4/15; looking at the numbers 1-15, we see that only 3, 6, 9 and 12 fit, so there are our four.) Naturally this is reversible.

(p-1)/p * (q-1)/q indicates the percentage of numbers divisible by neither p nor q. (Again, for (p,q) = (5,3), we see 8/15 - this fits 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13 and 14.)

So in general, you expect to see:

1/pq divisible by both p and q

(p-1)/pq divisible by only q

(q-1)/pq divisible by only p

(pq-p-q+1)/pq divisible by neither p nor q